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Because I might value human vs AI written documents differently for a a myriad of reasons.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Resumes are already documents written for machines.

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You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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What was the moment of revelation? Impossible finding? Hallucinations?

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Because now writing time comes at the expense of class time. So yes, there are "workarounds" in some sense, but they are much worse than the status quo circa 2020.

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No it was not a bad proxy. It was imperfect, obviously, but for people trying to teach 75 students how to write in one semester, it was somewhat effective. And yes, handwriting is an option, but it is much worse for accessibility, and also because it greatly restricts the amount of writing time>

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Because it's not worth my time to read a blog post that an author didn't actually believe/agree with/understand. Now I have this new task of discriminating meaningful vs non meaningful blog posts. Previously I could just read them. as for #2:

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Is there anything that you can say about why it was bad? Was it a case where the AI-ness was not obvious and so you spent a lot of time on it before realizing what it was?

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More broadly, obviously conversations are useful, but the entire point of writing as a means of communication is to let people communicate at larger scales. If we have to roll back to conversations, how is that even considered progress?

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For blog posters and other authors, it's obviously not realistic to talk to them to verify the authenticity of every piece they write. For students this adds a time cost onto already overloaded faculty members who used to be able to rely on writing as a rough proxy for engagement.

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It also really matters when you are trying to know for certain whether students are genuinely engaged in the learning process

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Slowing things down, in the positive sense of publishing fewer but more carefully authored papers has been the mainstream opinion in science for years. I have always thought and continue to think this is a good heuristic.

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Knowing whether someone actually wrote something using their neurons is (noisily) predictive of whether they actually hold that belief and whether they will remember that they wrote it later.

I'm pessimistic about detection, but there is genuine value if it worked, in understanding whether the text you were reading was directly the result of a human mind. That matters for a lot of cases.

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I'll bet the Prachee version would have been shorter and easier to read. While reading this I find that my mind kept glazing over the text and not taking it in.

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Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes, the coding and search functions of AI are useful to some but these weren't the promise.

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When your university screws up so badly that the state has to pass laws to prevent it from happening again.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Unbelievable. Except totally believable. We utterly fail at elite accountability in 🇺🇸, & elite universities have been at the forefront of that since Iran-Contra, repeatedly offering sinecures to the authoritarians. It's why all the things keep happening time & again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Thanks for posting this reasonably nuanced take on LLMs

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's true, but they can only claim to rule it out (lying aside) for work he did post July 3. If he had asked probing questions about this approach prior to July 3, those would be in the training set presumably.

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Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Thanks for the context. This doesn't completely address the issue though because it's not clear when elements of Buckmaster's solution were first seen by the model

How and when? I thought they specifically could not rule this out.

Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Modern nothing, war was always about math.

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Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yep, the law is pretty clear. We're just not enforcing it.

Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

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Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This post is discriminatory. Maybe that's just how this person thinks! /s

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Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Drexel University is very suddenly shutting down their museum of Natural History which hosts key specimens. There's more info here about what we can do to raise our voices: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxyf...

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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Really cool Mike! You should build a tutorial package for doing this so that people can just dive right in.

Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Alternative view: Any institution beset by such a gauntlet of challenges in rapid succession would struggle. Higher education is adapting to these challenges with varying success in different aspects. But that wouldn't make for a good headline would it?

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Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The racism and eugenics is often waiting right there under the surface. Just scrape the veneer away with a fingernail to find it. Or sometimes they'll say it openly.. www.youtube.com/shorts/8u0J4...

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The link we’ve established between money and morality needs to be severed with a guillotine

YouTube video by Farming While Beige

Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We had a good run Ted. Well, it was an ok run.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026

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The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An armed man charged at the Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio less than a week ago, and yet Republicans aren't being yelled at to turn down the temperature. The double standard is maddening.

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Hecklers shout ‘hE should be shot’ as Ted Cruz calls out El-Sayed and Talarico

Republicans increasingly seek to tie Democrats to left-wing members of the caucus and personalities like Hasan Piker

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Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You might enjoy this thread too: bsky.app/profile/been...

Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Interesting counterweight thread to the HuggingFace hacking incident impact.